Mother, 35, spends a weekend in prison after being so drunk she tipped her BABY out of its pram

A mother was so drunk she repeatedly tipped her pram over on a Tube escalator in front of shocked passengers, a court heard.

Deirdre O’Riordan, 35, repeatedly tried to put the buggy on the moving staircase at Canada Water station in central London but it toppled over and the baby fell out at around 1:10am on February 26.

O’Riordan, from Stratford-upon-Avon, had spent the evening drinking with a friend while her partner attended a work do, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.

She admitted being drunk in charge of her child and spent the weekend in custody.

Judge Daniel Sternberg gave the woman a conditional discharge because she had spent the weekend in custody, and said punishment from the court ‘is nothing compared to knowing that was the way you behaved’. 

O’Riordan sat with her head bowed in the dock wearing a black cardigan.

Dierdre O’Riordan, 35, repeatedly tried to put the buggy on the moving staircase at Canada Water station in central London but it toppled over and the baby fell out at around 1:10am on February 26

Malcolm Duxbury, defending, had told the court: ‘The lady’s husband sits at the back of the court, the baby is with him now. 

‘The parties had driven down to London because this lady’s husband had a work function. They booked into a hotel in Cricklewood.

‘The husband would go to the work function and Mrs O’Riordan would visit a friend. She did consume some alcohol. She has no recollection of the night but she does remember the incident with the escalator.

‘She is not working at the moment. She is signed off sick because a few years back she had a brain tumour.’

Judge Sternberg told O’Riordan: ‘At approximately 1:10 in the morning you were at Canada Water station with your child and you were behaving in such a way as to cause other people in the station to be concerned for your child’

Judge Sternberg told O’Riordan: ‘At approximately 1:10 in the morning you were at Canada Water station with your child and you were behaving in such a way as to cause other people in the station to be concerned for your child.

‘On at least one occasion you tried to put the pram on an escalator which resulted in the pram falling over and the child falling out.

‘You were so drunk the paramedics had to attend and assess you and your child who was taken to hospital before being released.

‘You pleaded guilty but the punishment from this court is nothing compared to knowing that was the way you behaved.’

O’Riordan, of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, admitted being drunk in charge of a child.